To Egypt, that is. My column in FrontPage this morning:
Egypt’s parliament, which is dominated by two pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists, voted unanimously
last Monday to expel Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, and signaled that
the Camp David Accords would soon be a thing of the past: Egypt, the
parliamentarians declared, would “never” be Israel’s ally. In fact,
Israel was Egypt’s “number one enemy.” And how did Barack Obama respond
to this egregious trampling upon the agreement that has kept an uneasy
peace between Israel and Egypt for thirty years? By announcing a resumption of military aid to Egypt.From the beginning of the “Arab Spring,” I said repeatedly that it
was not a democracy movement, as the Western press was claiming, but an
Islamic supremacist takeover that would result in the creation of Sharia
states that would be far more hostile to the U.S. and Israel than the
Arab nationalist regimes they were supplanting. This assessment was
greeted with the usual scorn: the Islamic supremacist media machine
charged “Islamophobia,” on Fox Juan Williams said I was “fearmongering,”
and the usual suspects made the usual ad hominem attacks. Yet
everything that has happened since then has shown that the “Arab Spring”
is indeed an Islamic supremacist winter, ushering in repressive Sharia
regimes with the enthusiastic blessing of Barack Obama.Yet even as Egypt’s Islamic supremacists rattle their sabers, their
spokesmen, allies and useful idiots in the American mainstream media
continue to peddle their soothing lies. The Islamic supremacist and adolescent mudslinger Reza Aslan was at West Virginia University last week
speaking about the developments in the Middle East, and heaping more
steaming piles of what he calls analysis on the hapless marks in his
audience. “Believe it or not,” Aslan said, and anyone with eyes in his
head will opt for “not,” “the greatest single aspiration in the region
at this moment is to achieve democracy.” Slyly implying that those who
have cast doubts on this alleged wonderful flowering of democracy are
motivated by racism, he continued: “It does not matter where you pray or
what skin color you were born with; democracy is a fundamental right of
life.” He also, according to the report on his talk in the campus
paper, “aimed to debunk that the Arab Spring is an Islamic takeover.
This myth is simply an American paradox due to the primary belief that
we live in a secular country that easily separates church and state, he
said.” Ah yes, of course. “There is not much difference between us and
them,” Aslan said. “These groups now have the opportunity to come out of
the mosque and to market ideas and see how they can come to life in
reality.”Yes, “there is not much difference between us and them.” After all,
we all want to cover women in burqas and enslave them to their husbands,
brutalize and terrorize non-Muslims, murder apostates from Islam, and
extinguish the freedom of speech, don’t we? And apparently one way these
Egyptian parliamentarians hope to “come to life in reality” is by
crucifying people and amputating their limbs. Yet as always, it doesn’t
matter how outstandingly wrong and deceptive politically correct
spokesmen are. It doesn’t matter that none of their predictions ever
come true, or that everything they said was nothing to be concerned
about turns out to be a matter of major concern. There is never any
accountability for them at all “” that a clown like Reza Aslan gets
invited to speak at any university at all, while those who are
consistently correct are demonized and marginalized, is a measure of how
debased and politicized American academia and the public square in
general have become.Aslan also complained in January
that “pundits and politicians are already ringing the alarm bells. The
common refrain you hear in the US: The Middle East is being overrun with
religious radicals bent on oppressing women and destroying Israel. That
is nonsense, of course. Nevertheless, there is no
doubt that political Islam will be a force in the new, democratic Middle
East. And that is a good thing.” His comment on Egypt’s designation of
Israel as its “number one enemy” was not recorded, but Aslan is no
stupider or more malevolent than many other mainstream media and
government spokesmen who assured us that the “Arab Spring” would bring a
new flowering of freedom to the Middle East and North Africa. And chief
among these was Barack Obama himself.